Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin slowness

2005-05-28 Thread bass pumped
Well, I submitted it. Alas, it didn't go well. You can follow the flame war here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/threads.html#01305 I just read that... that guy certainly has a problem!!! ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin slowness

2005-05-28 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Andy Ross a écrit : // // VERY bad performance characteristics when linked against // cygwin.dll. Watch under strace, and note that every N reads, there // is an inexplicable delay of several milliseconds. Spinning in the // malloc implementation? The Debug build of MSVC has the exact same

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Potential startup speed fix

2005-05-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Ralf Gerlich wrote: Erik Hofman schrieb: These issues should be fixed now. That was the second alternative I wanted to propose ;-) Just to be certain, these problems are now solved, aren't they? Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin slowness

2005-05-28 Thread Erik Hofman
bass pumped wrote: Well, I submitted it. Alas, it didn't go well. You can follow the flame war here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/threads.html#01305 I just read that... that guy certainly has a problem!!! Tell me about it, I've worked with such an individual for more than five

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Potential startup speed fix

2005-05-28 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Just to be certain, these problems are now solved, aren't they? Yes, they are. At least for me, can't speak for others...;-) Ralf ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin slowness

2005-05-28 Thread Norman Vine
Erik Hofman writes: bass pumped wrote: Well, I submitted it. Alas, it didn't go well. You can follow the flame war here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/threads.html#01305 I just read that... that guy certainly has a problem!!! Tell me about it, I've worked with such an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin slowness

2005-05-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Norman Vine wrote: FWIW I think these apply here http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#id3001405 http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#keepcool These two contradict (You can't offend them but they can offend you). It's a nice document on how to approach a three year

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly

2005-05-28 Thread Lee Elliott
On Thursday 26 May 2005 22:36, Geoff Reidy wrote: [snip...] 2.6.11 and also can't build the older drivers, as I since found out :( Just updated from 2.6.9 where only = 6629 worked properly with fgfs. Debian unstable. Geoff Yeah, Debian unstable here too. Our systems are probably in a near

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly

2005-05-28 Thread Lee Elliott
On Thursday 26 May 2005 21:35, Gerard ROBIN wrote: I get about 1 frame every five seconds. Same result at KEMT. Have looked through the nvidia forums but haven't seen anyone complain of problems like this. Geoff Thanks for that Geoff. I've already got a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly

2005-05-28 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le samedi 28 mai 2005 10:30 +0100, Lee Elliott a crit : On Thursday 26 May 2005 21:35, Gerard ROBIN wrote: I get about 1 frame every five seconds. Same result at KEMT. Have looked through the nvidia forums but haven't seen anyone complain of problems like this.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly

2005-05-28 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 28 May 2005 11:17, Gerard ROBIN wrote: Le samedi 28 mai 2005 10:30 +0100, Lee Elliott a crit : On Thursday 26 May 2005 21:35, Gerard ROBIN wrote: I get about 1 frame every five seconds. Same result at KEMT. Have looked through the nvidia forums but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Modifying nav.dat file and waypoints

2005-05-28 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Friday 27 May 2005 23:22, YENEW T KASSAYE wrote: Hello Everyone. Has anyone attempted to modify the listings in nav.dat file and run flightgear 0.9.8? I am trying to edit the nav.dat file. My idea is to create waypoints for the autopilot to follow by using the NAV 1 CD1 Course and NAV 1

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Modifying nav.dat file and waypoints

2005-05-28 Thread DesmoSS
In a message dated 5/28/2005 7:24:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How does it not work? Do you get an error? Are you not getting what you expect when you tune the navradio to your frequency? I'm actually working thru the same type of problem... my nav.dat files are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly

2005-05-28 Thread Jim Wilson
I also have no joystick under 2.6.11 but I this version fixed a samba problem I had. Sigh...I know I've got some earlier 2.6 kernels where everything seems to work - just a question of progressively working backwards I guess. That's correct.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly

2005-05-28 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 28 May 2005 12:54, Jim Wilson wrote: That's correct. See: http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-users/2004-July/008234.html I applied that patch or something just like that to 2.6.8 and it worked fine. There is a risk that something else usb will stop working since this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly

2005-05-28 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 28 May 2005 11:23, Lee Elliott wrote: I'll try the the patches. Thanks. Worked. Thanks to all concerned. LeeE ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Modifying nav.dat file and waypoints

2005-05-28 Thread Dave Culp
I'm actually working thru the same type of problem... my nav.dat files are within the Navaid folder as a Zip file. I can open the file and make my alterations, but returning the file to a zipped.dat file is escaping me. This seems to be the case for apt.dat, awy.dat, and nav.dat. Has anyone

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin slowness

2005-05-28 Thread Andy Ross
Erik Hofman wrote: Norman Vine wrote: FWIW I think these apply here http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#id3001405 http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#keepcool These two contradict (You can't offend them but they can offend you). It's a nice document on how

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Cygwin slowness

2005-05-28 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Andy Ross -- Saturday 28 May 2005 07:07: Well, I submitted it. Alas, it didn't go well. You can follow the flame war here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/threads.html#01305 Oh Dear. Now I know more about Cygwin than I ever wanted to know. Never have I seen a bigger *** in any

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Cygwin slowness

2005-05-28 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Saturday 28 May 2005 19:39: Oh Dear. Now I know more about Cygwin than I ever wanted to know. Never have I seen a bigger *** in any of the numerous projects where I am interested in and follow closely, or where I take part. Typically, such projects die off quickly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Cygwin slowness

2005-05-28 Thread Steven Beeckman
Citeren Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Melchior FRANZ -- Saturday 28 May 2005 19:39: Oh Dear. Now I know more about Cygwin than I ever wanted to know. Never have I seen a bigger *** in any of the numerous projects where I am interested in and follow closely, or where I take

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin slowness

2005-05-28 Thread Vivian Meazza
Andy Ross wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Norman Vine wrote: FWIW I think these apply here http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#id3001405 http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#keepcool These two contradict (You can't offend them but they can offend you).

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin slowness

2005-05-28 Thread Norman Vine
Vivian Meazza writes: Andy Ross wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Norman Vine wrote: FWIW I think these apply here http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#id3001405 http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#keepcool These two contradict (You can't offend

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Modifying nav.dat file and waypoints

2005-05-28 Thread DesmoSS
In a message dated 5/28/2005 8:59:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have unpacked all of these, removed most of the data, and then repacked them in gzip. They work fine. What are you using to gzip them? Make sure they are .gz and not .tgz. Dave, Good call,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot

2005-05-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 27 May 2005 15:26:58 -0500, Curtis wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Vance Souders wrote: I want to implement an acrobatic AI autopilot and was debating a few different ways of tackling the problem. I was thinking of either creating a spline based system or tuning the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin slowness

2005-05-28 Thread Theo Reticle
'This basically duplicates the read loop in the apt.dat.gz loader. Itruns in 2 seconds on my linux box, but takes 40 (!) seconds on thewindows/cygwin machine. Bizarre.' The Zen Master of Algorithm Analysis would say it probably isn't so bizarre :-) - Original Message - From:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin slowness

2005-05-28 Thread Theo Reticle
Just out of WAGing curiousity, what happens when you run cygwin "--enable-dmalloc" ? Does it have any effect on thesplit time? I'm still new at this... so forgive me for any dumbass comments/ideas please - Original Message - From: Andy Ross To: FlightGear developers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] .ac file format

2005-05-28 Thread Theo Reticle
I'm still a a little confused by all of this also... you can apparently use Blender with an .ac3d plugin... but some people talk about using gmax. Is there a link out there for a page(other than the FG 3D model doc page!) for the best open source way to create a model? If someone would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] .ac file format

2005-05-28 Thread Theo Reticle
Sorry, that post was close to what I was thinking/working... I posted without actually reading your question. The breakdown of the file format is here: http://www.ac3dorg/ac3d/man/ac3dfileformat.html - Original Message - From: Drew To: FlightGear developers discussions